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sanamuah

Writing Syllabi Worth Reading | Tona Hangen - 2 views

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3rdspace teaching syllabus vcualtlab edtech

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  • sanamuah on 14 Jul 15
     
    "Giving a syllabus a profound inside-out reorganization is more than just window dressing. It involves deep thought about your course content and how a student encounters it. Marshall McLuhan said, "the medium is the message" and while the traditional medium for a syllabus is a portrait-oriented 8.5×11 text document printed on paper and handed out the first day of class… it needn't be the only possibility.
Yin Wah Kreher

No Significant Difference - Presented by WCET - 0 views

www.nosignificantdifference.org/faq.asp

online_learning

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  • Yin Wah Kreher on 05 Jul 15
     
    Quoting Mr. Russell from the introduction to his book,

    "These studies tell me that there is nothing inherent in the technologies that elicits improvements in learning. Having said that, let me reassure you that difference in outcomes can be made more positive by adapting the content to the technology. That is, in going through the process of redesigning a course to adapt the content to the technology, it can be improved."

    This idea is reflected in the history of the No Significant Difference literature. Over the last 50 years, the question for media comparison studies (MCS) has evolved from, "Can students learn at a distance?" to "What is the effect of distance delivery on student outcomes?" Over the years, especially since the internet revolution, the conviction that distance delivery is necessarily inferior to face to face instruction has faded a bit. As we accept that it is not the technology itself, but the application of technology, that has the potential to affect learning, it is our hope that future research will strive to identify the instructional methods that best utilize technology attributes to improve student outcomes.
cnye2014

WebQuest - 0 views

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online learning

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  • cnye2014 on 05 Jan 15
     
    A Webquest is an online activity planned for the student to explore/investigate/synthesize multiple sources of information. Students are provided with a scenario or problem, and are given links to websites where they have to search for information to answer questions or complete a task. This is a great activity for online classes. I have used a webquest in an online course about veteran health care. The students were given a scenario about a homeless veteran they cared for in a clinic setting in their personal hometown. They had to research homelessness, the services offered in their home town, and the disease processes of their veteran. They had to develop either a speech to present the issue at a town hall meeting, develop a proposal to supply a service that was needed by the veteran or write an op-ed piece for their hometown newspaper.
sanamuah

Using Voyant for Text Analysis | Digital History Methods - 1 views

ricedh.github.io/02-voyant.html

3rdspace digital+humanities

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  • This page walks through the process of using Voyant for digital text mining. Find here a link to our entire corpus of runaway ads uploaded into a Voyant skin.
  • sanamuah on 27 Feb 15
     
    Digital text-mining tools can help researchers understand document collections that are prohibitively large for a close-reading. Our collection of runaway slave advertisements from Texas, Arkansas, and Mississippi totals over 2,500 individual ads! Not only would it be extremely time consuming to read this entire collection, the consistently short, boilerplate format of runaway ads can make it difficult to really distinguish between them. The ads from Texas, Arkansas, and Mississippi start to all look practically indistinguishable, making it difficult for close-reading alone to recognize pattern breaks between the states, without the assistance of computational data. This is where Voyant comes in. We hoped that the "distant-reading" capabilities of Voyant would be able to pick up on larger word usage trends that are not immediately apparent when reading with the human eye.
anonymous

How to Assign and Grade a Multimedia Project | Teaching Commons - 0 views

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multimedia assessment

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  • So how do you make the assignment an effective and engaging learning experience for your students? And how do you evaluate the projects once they’re complete? The new Multimedia Best Practices and Rubric: A Guide to the What, Why, & How was designed to guide you through this often-daunting process to craft multimedia assignments that are beneficial, productive, and fun. Further, it helps you evaluate the different components of the projects based on a number of criteria no matter what the medium.
Tom Woodward

Twitter Natural Language Processing -- Noah's ARK - 0 views

www.ark.cs.cmu.edu/TweetNLP

twitter words tools language data

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  • Tom Woodward on 09 Nov 14
     
    "We provide a tokenizer, a part-of-speech tagger, hierarchical word clusters, and a dependency parser for tweets, along with annotated corpora and web-based annotation tools. "
Yin Wah Kreher

Take A Look Inside The Infographic Mega-Tome, "Knowledge Is Beautiful" | The Creators P... - 0 views

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  • “I start with the idea, and usually a question. Something that typically stupefies me, bewilders me, or frustrates me,” McCandless tells The Creators Project in an interview. “And then the question becomes a concept, and the concept becomes a graphic.”
  • A great and effective data visualization begins with an accurate and well-structured data set, a compelling story and an intention or a goal for getting the information across, explains McCandless. The visual structure comes into play only at the end of the research stage, following the pages and pages of spreadsheets a reader never gets to see. “This work is about 80% research and 20% design,” he explains.
  • He felt he could relate.
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  • “A lot of people just visualize complex data,” says McCandless. “They’ll take the data without wrapping it in a story, filtering it in any way, humanizing it, or focusing on what’s interesting. Without doing that, you just translate the complexity into visual form.” A complex visualization is counterintuitive, he adds, because its purpose is to clarify and distill data. The strength of an idea is what carries it through each precise stage of the creation process, from data gathering through structuring and designing.
  • With visual language, McCandless can cut through the noise in information overload, uncover the insights locked within data, and decode the self-referential language that pervades knowledge.
  • Yin Wah Kreher on 11 Nov 14
     
    dataviz project for ECAR stats
Tom Woodward

How did they make that? | Miriam Posner's Blog - 4 views

miriamposner.com/...how-did-they-make-that

digitalhumanities examples tutorials tools weekly

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  • Tom Woodward on 14 Feb 15
     
    Maybe this is a framework/concept for doing some of the ALT Lab documentation. It mixes tutorial/tool guide/example in a way that works pretty well.
  • sanamuah on 14 Feb 15
     
    I like this concept we can show examples of various interesting things faculty are doing and explain the creation process. That way faculty work is always at the forefront of what we do
Enoch Hale

Why 'Nudges' to Help Students Succeed Are Catching On - The Chronicle of Higher Education - 2 views

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students chronicle higher education articles

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  • It can also be used to redesign systems so that they’re easier to navigate in the first place.
  • A nudge, like the text-message reminders that helped students make the transition to college, offers a workaround to help people get through a complex system,
  • A nudge, they explained, encourages — but does not mandate — a certain behavior: think putting healthier options at eye level in the cafeteria.
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  • Researchers have used a series of text messages like this one to "nudge" students to complete important tasks like filing the Free Application for Federal Student Aid. The researchers, Ben Castleman and
  • He says there are two aspects of behavioral work: trying to solve a behavioral problem, and doing so with a behavioral solution.
  • Social psychologists are interested in how people make sense of an experience, which can in turn direct their behavior.
  • "We begin a step back in the causal process," Mr. Walton says. As a result, social psychology’s interventions often strive to change how students see the social world around them, or actually change that world — for instance, by having teachers frame their feedback differently.
  • The approach is elegant, creative, and aligned with common sense.
  • It’s possible some people would argue that we act like completely rational beings, but probably not anyone who spends a lot of time around college students.
  • Given their low cost, behavioral solutions often appealing to funders and policy makers.
  • But the flip side of the coin is that such low-cost solutions cannot replace other, pricier efforts to improve college access and success.
  • Higher education presents a "perfect storm for the frailties of human reasoning," Mr. Kelly says. "The system often seems set up to frustrate people."
  • Critics of efforts to simplify or inform students’ choices often say that college isn’t meant to be easy. If someone cannot successfully apply for financial aid, maybe that person doesn’t belong in college. Researchers typically respond by saying they are working to help students through the pesky tasks on the periphery of going to college. Filing the Fafsa — which, incidentally, the most advantaged students don’t have to deal with — isn’t meant to be an admissions test.
  • Tom Woodward on 03 Feb 16
     
    I wish I could automate some things like this in rampages . . . like if you do a bare URL that doesn't link . . . I'd like to auto comment with some directions on how to make a link. Seems doable in terms of programming.
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